From artificial flagella to medical microbots – the start of a "phantastic voyage"
2012
MPI Year Book
There have been numerous speculations in scientific publications and the popular media about wirelessly controlled microrobots (microbots) navigating the human body. Such micro-agents could revolutionize minimally invasive medical procedures. Using physical vapor deposition we grow billions of micron-sized colloidal screw-propellers on a wafer. These chiral mesoscopic screws can be magnetized and moved through solution under computer control. The screw-propellers resemble artificial flagella and are the only ‘microbots’ to date that can be fully controlled in solution at micron length scales.
Author(s): | Fischer, Peer |
Year: | 2012 |
Bibtex Type: | MPI Year Book (mpi_year_book) |
URL: | https://www.mpg.de/4764499/Medizinische_Microbots?c=11741001 |
BibTex @mpi_year_book{year_book_fischer_2011, title = {From artificial flagella to medical microbots – the start of a "phantastic voyage"}, author = {Fischer, Peer}, year = {2012}, doi = {}, url = {https://www.mpg.de/4764499/Medizinische_Microbots?c=11741001} } |